Sam Barrett

GeoAI, GenAI and fiction writing

[Sam Barrett @ai4geo]

@leastfixedpoint I think this is very often true but not universal. I saw through collaboratively writing a book with AI that the surface tells can persist independently of the depth and density of the content.

[Sam Barrett @ai4geo]

@beh_zod @joshpuckett Well said. Its unfortunate the ubiquitous default is Aai to shortcut when it can be so useful on the journey. I write a lot with AI but it never feels like a shortcut but rather a new medium to explore and express my ideas. It rarely saves much time.

[Sam Barrett @ai4geo]

@jachands Not for PRs. Not for coding. For collaborative fiction writing.

[Sam Barrett @ai4geo]

Anyone know any other examples of using Claude Code as a (text based) game engine?

[Sam Barrett @ai4geo]

Wondering what to do with Fable during the extended access window? You could govern Carthage.

Petition to Carthage is a turn-based game run entirely by the model — inspired by NationStates, set in the alternate history of Mare Non Nostrum.

[Sam Barrett @ai4geo]

@Kisalay_ @jxnlco What's the address of voice mode for this over transcription?

[Sam Barrett @ai4geo]

2/2 again, this time identifying thin prompted stories of all having very clean stories and one distinctively having unique kind of structure and morally ambiguous plot elements.

[Sam Barrett @ai4geo]

Can AI tell "Argued into existence" (https://t.co/tpbp9Ag3gW) from shallow prompting?

Strong yes!
I ran 4 experiments...

[Sam Barrett @ai4geo]

4. 3 but with sub agents reading each story and prohibition on returning lists of plot elements (style and structure report only) to main agent to prevent ancestry shortcut:...

[Sam Barrett @ai4geo]

@j_becke @lulumeservey @mignano Exactly, and "good" is not clearly defined, especially at the level of structure and deeper message, which is why we see prose which looks good at a surface level but has no depth.

[Sam Barrett @ai4geo]

@JoshWein @lulumeservey @j_becke @mignano So taste and intention but without the skill to generate from scratch?

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

I think there’s a relevant similarity between AI writing coding and AI writing

A good coder will get a much better result from AI coding

Similarly a good writer will get a much better result from AI writing, because they’ll know how to curate and edit, and they’ll know what good looks like

[Cory Althoff @coryalthoff]

AI made writing easy, and being interesting hard.